In 1874, a group of creatives in St Petersburg organized an exhibition of works by the artist and architect Viktor Hartmann, who had died the year previously at the age of just 39. Hartmann’s images were frequently fantastical and surreal – combining poetic atmosphere with architectural precision.

Immediately, the exhibition triggered the musical imagination of composer Modest Mussorgsky. ‘I can hardly manage to put the ideas and melodies down on paper fast enough’, he wrote about his response: a piano work titled Pictures at an Exhibition that captures the essence of a particular work of visual art like none other. It wasn’t long before Maurice Ravel turned Mussorgsky’s piano piece into full-colour orchestral marvel.

In collaboration with Kode, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Rasmus Hella Mikkelsen present this larger-than-life orchestral work in all its glory while revealing some of the secrets and stories around its creation in a fun and informative performance for all the family.